So, it's a choice on Nabokov's part to foreground the question of judgment from moment one,

纳博科夫选择从一开始就强调审判的问题
and then for him to invoke multiple kinds of exculpatory narratives.

然后再引入多重辩解的叙述
He's planting them in there for us to find.

他设计这些等着我们发现
"Oh, when?"

"啊是什么时候呢"
In childhood.

在童年时
By safely locating that precursor in his own childhood when,

将那位前任安排在他的童年时期是项安全的举措
as he says, he was her equal, where there was no crime,

因为如他所说他是她的同龄人那时还没有邪念
only a kind of infantile passion that nobody would blame him for,

仅有一份孩子气的激情没人会为此而责怪他
he invites us to think of Humbert as somehow still retaining

他想要我们觉着亨伯特还保持着
a kind of innocent purity, that that passion itself is the

天真的纯洁而那激情本身是
innocent purity that flames at the heart of childhood.

天真纯洁的就像童年时心中的火焰
Then we get these allusions, and if you have the annotated

然后我们得到这些暗示而且假如你的书里